"It is hard to figure out what is most dazzling about Matthew Soules's Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: the dissection of the complex but very material nature of finance capital; the adroit linking of real estate calculations to the physical shape of housing; the exposure of how, in architecture, base (the money equations) and superstructure (architectural aspiration) are dialectically intertwined; the weaving of cultural and economic theory with concrete facts; or the simultaneous breadth and depth of examples. I think, ultimately, it's his reminder that-like the goldfish asking, 'What water?'-architecture's inability to comprehend its submersion in finance capital dooms both our urban life and our architectural reputation."
- Peggy Deamer, editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present,